Workforce strategist, author, and motivational
speaker Pat Troy-Brooks helps companies, schools, colleges and
universities, nonprofits, and government agencies by providing their
clients and students with practical strategies and tools to help
them take control of their careers and their futures.

Through training programs she’s developed, motivational speeches,
career coaching, and her book Your Job Search GPS: Navigate to
Your Career Destination in 10 Steps, Pat has helped tens of
thousands of people attain higher education, survive lay-offs and
regain employment, shift career paths, become entrepreneurs, and
learn vital skills for working in the 21st Century job market. And,
as a survivor of an aggressive form of breast cancer, Pat offers
comfort, insight, and motivation to cancer patients and survivors
across the country, and advocates for early and frequent screenings
for everyone.

Pat’s company WorkWise Group
specializes in a broad array of services and products, including
training DVDs and job search self-help books; skills and customer
service training; company restructuring and rebranding; team
efficacy; crisis management; sales and marketing training;
communications and public/client relations; motivational speaking;
company workshops and retreats; and much more.

Her long list of clients include Cheyney
University, Wesley College, Immaculata College, Lincoln University,
the Department of Labor and Division of Vocational Rehab, Delaware
County Community College, Mexico State University, various Delaware
charter, private, and public schools, Children and Families First,
TeenShop Inc., and the state governments and agencies of New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

Pat served as a liaison to President Obama’s
Economic Recovery Workforce Advisory Board, and is the recipient of
dozens of national and local awards, including the Delaware Small
Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business
Administration, Strong, Smart and Bold Award, the NAAACP Freedom
Fund Award and the NAACP Visionary Leadership Award. She has been
featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Ebony, MBE Magazine,
Enterprising Women’s Magazine, Essence, Black Enterprise, and
Delaware’s News Journal.